Thursday, 20 March 2008

Easter holiday !! ^__^

It's finally easter holiday !
Even though I'm going to have much to do, school work such as essays, I'm so glad there's no school : D
I'm hyper right now. Can't fall asleep either so I'm sitting here and listening to music. The Cure and Pet Shop Boys.
Today the whole school had several floorball matches. Me and my class played against four other classes. We lost two matches. But we won two as well ;D I had alot of fun, can't wait till next year, then we'll kick their asses ;D
Unfortunately we didn't go to the finals, but hey, it was our first time, we will only get better and better ^^

I'm done reading Animal Farm now. Such a good book. I like how George Orwell used animals to describe the situation in Soviet Union.
I wonder why he decided to use animals, instead of humans, to describe the characters .. But that makes it all quite unique. ^^
It's quite scary how the animals first decided that everyone was equal, no one was better than the others, everyone should have it the same, and just a bit time later all the animals is controlled by dictatorship, in this case the pigs. Suddenly the pigs have control over everything, and the other animals don't quite understand. The readers can see that from the first chapter the pigs have a big part in this farm. They are categorized as the "clever" ones, and they first say to the animals that soon all the animals in the farm will have it better. They will no longer have to starve, they will no longer have to work for the humans. Because the humans are the enemy, the pigs says.
All the animals in the farm believes in everything the pigs are saying, and soon they have invent Animalism. But all the pigs do not believe in the same thing when they mean Animalism.
From the beginning Animalism mean that everyone is equal. No animal can kill another animal.
Of course, that sounds great thinks the animals. But from day to day, the pigs are getting more control, more power and more greedy. The more power they get, the more they want. Instead of being equal, now the pigs are living like kings, while the other animals lives as slaves.

The charachters in this book can be compared as the ones who ruled Soviet.
One pig can be compared as Stalin. Another pig as Trotskij. A human, the man who's in charged for the farm in the beginning, is compared as Nikolaj II. Another as Molotov. And one pig, who has a big role in this book, as Lenin or Marx.

I enjoyed reading Animal Farm, and I'm definitely going to search for another book from George Orwell (I mostly want to read his book "1984" ). ^_^

Oh, well it's time to have a rest now I think. It's 01:24 AM (*gasp!*) but I'm actually not a bit tired .. : P Ah well, I think I'm going to listen to music .. Perfect .. : D

Have a good easter holiday !! With lots of fun I hope ^__^

1 comment:

Nicky said...

unfortsunally I have read Animal farm to and I didn't really enjoy the book it was to "trög". But you have written your thoughts very well i think!!